Ted's new reefer book says - "Like many other cars illustrated herein, it was painted with orange sides, the MDT- standard for cars painted in the 1930s and through the 1950s.........." (page 49). I

Four days ago, Dennis Storzek wrote, and having some idea how large the potential target population was would be useful. Dwight Smith, former B&M Freight Sales employee, once shared a story

I have 4 Rapido painted and lettered meat refrigerator cars that need to have their lettering and/or paint removed. Has anyone done this, and if so, how? Well, I did find an unpainted meat

The link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/82856031@N04/23794898880/in/dateposted/ Bob Witt

Unloading furniture from a PRR box car in Vincennes, Indiana. The year for the re-weight date looks like "59" to my eyes. Bob Witt

Thank you for your suggestion. Hubert

Dear Hubert, I suggest next time to paste the link to your website in your message so people can just click on it. Bill Welch

I do not have any specific information about car traffic to the Brown & Haley Candy Factory, but can speak a little bit from local knowledge. Let me contemplate this while munching on some Almond

Received my invoice yesterday. I expect to have the cars late next week. I know a number of you ordered from me. I have those orders and will fill them first. Rich Orr GR Collectibles

scratchbuilt CNJ covered hopper too! :-) https://i1.wp.com/designbuildop.hansmanns.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/201704_am_9.jpg

Wanted to let the group know that I have limited 4 Packs of the new Broadway Limited Imports new tank cars posted on my web site. Look and click on the BLI logo. Also view my selection of time era

A recent email of inquiry started a chain of events that lead to a finished CNJ box car model. Alan Mende has the details in a DesignBuildOp guest post. In addition to a scratchbuilt box car, he

Morning Hubert Thats great thank you. Paul Doggett Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

Morning Paul . The Rock Island had several car shops that did rebuilds etc. The largest were El Reno, Oklahoma, El Reno Yard (EL) and Biddle Yard, Little Rock Arkansas. (BD) Hubert Mask Mask

Hi Guys Which Rock Island shop(s) rebuilt/repainted their cars in the late forties early fifties. Thank you Paul Doggett UK Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

My 4 pack A of BLI 6K tank arrived today. I wish I knew more about the prototypes, but these are nice models. They are slightly smaller than the Tangent acid cars. Put it next to an Atlas 11K chemical

Got my 4 pack today. Nice looking cars. Bill Vaughn

Sort of answering my own query but one of our members put me in touch w/a hobby shop. I sent them a message telling them what I wanted and they responded saying they "had me covered" and that models

There are some museums that use solid Babbit bearings regularly and are not scared of them.... The system calls for a decent bearing and journal, and packing that is turned "inward" so thread are

Reminds me of the horse & mule car that Red Ball offered many years ago. Here’s a link to a photo of the model https://www.flickr.com/photos/123800523@N03/14383237201 Doug